International Criminal Law

An Introduction to Transitional Justice provides the first comprehensive overview of transitional justice as it has been implemented by transitional and post-conflict states. Written by some of the leading experts in the field it takes a broad, interdisciplinary approach to the subject, addressing t..

In 1990, after the end of the Pinochet regime, the newly-elected democratic government of Chile established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate and report on some of the worst human rights violations committed under the seventeen-year military dictatorship. The Chilean TRC was..

In 1990, after the end of the Pinochet regime, the newly-elected democratic government of Chile established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to investigate and report on some of the worst human rights violations committed under the seventeen-year military dictatorship. The Chilean TRC was..

Britain’s Hidden Role in the Rwandan Genocide examines the role of the United Kingdom as a global elite bystander to the crime of genocide, and its complicity, in violation of international criminal laws during the Rwandan genocide of 1994...

Britain's Hidden Role in the Rwandian Genocide examines the role of these countries as external bystanders to the crime of genocide, and particularly their complicity - in violation of international criminal laws - in the Rwandan genocide of 1994...

Designed for courses in comparative criminal justice systems, comparative criminology, and international criminal law, this volume examines the history, dynamics, structure, organization, and processes in the criminal justice systems in the United States, Ireland, Israel, Argentina, Sierra Leone, Ch..

Since the Nuremberg trial, the crime of aggression has been considered one of the gravest international crimes. However, since the 1940s no defendants have been charged with this crime, with some states actively opposing the notion of punishing aggression. Criminal Responsibility for the Crime of Ag..

This collection of essays is the first dedicated to the topic of critical approaches to international criminal law. Individual criminal accountability is firmly entrenched in both international law and the international consciousness as a necessary mechanism of responsibility. This field has recentl..

Elements of Genocide provides an authoritative evaluation of the current perception of the crime, as it appears in the decisions of judicial authorities, the writings of the foremost academic experts in the field, and in the texts of Commission Reports...

This book confronts the problem of the legal uncertainty surrounding the definition and classification of ethnic cleansing, investigating the status of ethnic cleansing in international law. It addresses the question of the specificity of the act and its relation to existing categories of internatio..

 This volume focuses on the field of international criminal law and asks the question: what relevance does fighting have to victimhood in international criminal law?_x005F_x000D_  ..

Through a close reading of the practices of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, or the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as it is also called, this book demonstrates how court practices produce the subjectivity of the victim, a subjectivity that is profoundly of law and endogenous to the enterp..